California Is The 32nd State For Spam

MessageLabs reported this week that California gets less spam than 31 other states. But Mississippi, Missouri and Minnesota all beat us at blocking the despicable stuff.

States with higher spam levels may not place as high a priority on computer security, said MessageLabs technologist Matt Sergeant. Or their employees and businesses may be more willing to share information publicly.

“When email addresses are openly available,” Sergeant said, “spammers take advantage of it and inundate those inboxes with massive amounts of spam.”

In the month of June, the global ratio of spam to legitimate e-mail was 81.5 percent, but in the U.S. it was higher–86 percent.

Illinois, South Dakota and Oregon were June’s top three spam gatherers.